It seems like every few months, there’s something really gross making the rounds out on YouTube. The last big viral video was the 2 GIRLS 1 CUP crap literally. The video was pulled faster than you could say KAZAAM but recordings of the reactions of viewers proved to be equally as popular.
So this time, it’s by “Riskay – The Drama Queen” who shops around for a catchy R&B/Hip-Hop tune which goes something like …
… can I smell your yo dick?
Seriously who says that but the song is definitely catchy. The rather strange request to sniff her boyfriend’s (or boo or whatever) d*ck to see if he’s messing around with some other chick is downright gross. The best thing in the video is the iPhone doing some Joey Grecko (host of Cheaters TV) stuff to aide our “Riskay” and confirm her fears. The poor iPhone gets thrown but survives the fall.
Also, quite a few spoofs are already out on the internet. Check them all out, YO!
I noticed quite a few disturbing images of Chinese students abroad in Korea, Japan, and Australia resorting to intimidation tactics and in one case, actual physical violence against peaceful protesters (who are against the Chinese Government). Looking at the image of the kid below, vengeance and hatred is clearly painted on his face while surrounded by his Communist loving fellow international students in Seoul, Korea.
Below, one of the many pictures taken of the Chinese students in Seoul attempting to attack the Pro-Tibet group. Violence. Hatred. Classic hallmarks of the Communist propaganda machine’s legacy at work.
Apparently, an elderly South Korean man (below) was protesting against China’s handling of North Korean defectors and he gets a karate (sorry that be Japanese) kung-fu kick to his back. Alarmingly, this was taken in Korea and the perpetrator has been identified as a Chinese international student as of now.
Some mid-aged dude protesting for Tibet gets a kick in the back. Looks like the same Chinese kid in Korea doing it and he’s got helpers making sure the person gets beat up the old Commie way. Feet in the back. Then kick them harder when they’re down. Is this a tell-tale sign of things to come if China became the #1 superpower in the world?
In Australia, a Pro-Tibet supporter (poor white dude) gets harassed by Chinese students/immigrants. I wish I was there so I could kick some Commie-lover asses.
As seen in Japan (Nagano), Chinese students in full support of their repressive government and protesting against the Pro-Tibet groups. Really strong emotions flowing to support some Communist government.
The doorway to Grace Wang’s house in China vandalized by graffiti bearing descriptive death threats from local Chinese. Grace is studying here in the USA which makes her a prime target for the freedom haters out in China. She might be tainted by knowledge. Kill her!
And finally, a Chinese student somewhere in China paints a happy picture for the Beijing Summer Olympics Games. Painting simple happy thoughts is one way to lead an ignorant lifestyle by shutting your senses to the atrocities and injustices going on around you. It’s the easy choice seriously.
I know there are quite a few Chinese who are against the totalitarian styled regime in China and I wish other Chinese are able to open their eyes as well. If China wants to be a global market player in terms of brokering peace, negotiating business deals, and considering itself as a “friendly neighbor” to the rest of the nations, it must show that to its own people first in action. Lying to their citizens through the use of media propaganda to incite hate and violence should definitely stay out of their plans. So guys. Stop watching CCTV. You know you’re being conned when your news station tells you it’s a closed-circuit television. The next test for naive people – the Nigerian scam.
So my question here is “Why do a lot of Chinese oppose freedom while enjoying the fruits of those rights in western nations which for strange reasons, they openly hate?” I guess the bigger question here is “How deep is their hatred?”
EDIT: Found some YouTube videos where they show actual objects like wrenches and stones being hurled at the Pro-Tibet protestors.
and one where a Pro-Tibet protester gets ganged up in a 5-star hotel by a raging Chinese student mob in Seoul, Korea.
The root cause for most of the issues of unable to find the files you downloaded lie with how we set our browsers to handle files. By default on most browsers, files are set to be downloaded onto the desktop screen but changes we’ve made might affect the location.
In the case of Firefox here’s what you can do to fix your headache.
IF when you try downloading a file, you do NOT get this prompt.
Cause: You check-marked the “Do this automatically for …” box sometime and now the option you had selected “OPEN WITH” or “SAVE TO DISK” even if you can’t remember are set to run automatically.
Fix: On your Mozilla Firefox browser (sorry I dislike the clunky and porous Microsoft Internet Explorer), click on TOOLS > OPTIONS and on the pop-up menu shown below…
Click on the MAIN tab and then select the “Always ask me …” option. Now hit OK to initialize the changes you’ve made to your browser’s settings.
Next step is to go back to try and download a file again.
This time you will get the pop-up window…
… to which you want to basically ensure it’s set to “SAVE” and the box remains UNCHECKED! Then hit OK and you are bumped into another pop-up window…
Select the location where you’d like to save your files (DESKTOP in my case) and hit SAVE! Your file saves to the desired location. YAY! You are now able to locate files you downloaded from the interweb but wait a sec. There’s work to do yet.
You want to revert some of the changes you made to the browser because having to go through 2 pop-up windows to deal with every single download on the interweb is simply not your forte.
On your Mozilla Firefox browser, click on TOOLS > OPTIONS and on the pop-up menu shown below…
Check the “Save files to” instead of “Always ask me …” and then hit OK and you’re set.
… and hope you remember this if you ever run into this problem again Kaci!
Kaci hit “DOWNLOAD” on an MS Word document attached to an email and the file instantly launched on Microsoft Office 2003 on her screen. She made a bunch of changes to the Word document and like any smart computer user, hit CTRL+S to save the file. After closing it, she realized that she was unable to relocate the file she just spent a good 10 minutes editing.
There are many ways of finding the file you just downloaded and some of them are:
Carefully scan through the clutter on your desktop screen.
Minimize everything and then press the F5 key to refresh your desktop.
Right-click on an empty spot and click on “Arrange Icons By” and then “Auto Arrange“. This should bring most “missing” files back in your sight.
Press WINDOWS+E to open Windows (File) Explorer. Then go to “C:\Documents and Settings\ [your-computer-name] \Desktop” and scan for your file.
Most people would opt to “Search” their computers for the file if they know the name of the file but depending on certain factors it (whether the file was SAVED or simply RAN), the file name might bring up a blank because a random name might be supplied rendering your search fruitless.
Some will try looking in the RECENT FILES folder which is located in “C:\Documents and Settings\ [your-computer-name] \My Recent Documents” or on most computers, Start > My Recent Documents.
You can go back to the place where you downloaded the file and attempt to download it again to find the location. [CAUTION: This may OVERRIDE the original file. NOT RECOMMENDED if you have the OPEN or SAVE set to automatic]
The smarter folks will scan the TEMP folders if #1 or #2 don’t give them the results they want. To do that, simply go to “C:\Documents and Settings\ [your-computer-name] \Local Settings\Temp” after opening up Windows (File) Explorer using the WINDOWS+E shortcut command keys. OR
You can press WINDOWS+R to launch the RUN command menu and type in “%temp%” and then hit enter to lead you to the same location.
If none of them give you the answers, you have a ghost in the machine. Regardless, the best solution for any problem is not to have them at all and I’ll continue with it on the next post.
As China steadies itself for the media onslaught in the summer, for the first time in history, the Olympics will be held in a Communist state under Capitalistic economic policies and a Totalitarian-styled regime. Quite reasonably, there have been a lot of concerns voiced by various nations about the clash in the true ideals of the Olympics and China’s heavy-handed approach in attending to “domestic” matters. Never before has the prestigious games been opposed so openly by citizens behind the geographical, cultural, and political boundaries that separates them.
For one, the ethnic Tibetans in the “Autonomous Region of Tibet” have been suppressed since 1949. The history books in China paint a picture of Mao’s troops liberating the Tibetan “slaves” in a class-based society. Sadly, what is failed to be mentioned are that many millions of Tibetans died working against their wills in slave camps for the Communistic beliefs held by China. Those that survived died from malnutrition after being forced to follow Mao’s failed economic and agricultural programs which led to a long famine in the harsh climates of the Tibetan plateau. The nation lost over 50% of their lands through China’s renaming and rezoning of their provinces. Even today, their senior monks are hand-picked by Chinese government officials instead of by the monasteries and their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is still banned in Tibet. Possessing a picture of the Dalai Lama or uttering his name in public are deemed serious offenses. The ubiquity of CCTVs (closed-circuit television aka security cameras), plainclothes cops, and cops disguised as monks on the streets of Lhasa ensure that nobody steps out of line. In fact, it’s a boot camp and not many people like boot camps when you’re forced to live in one for all your life.
So what’s going on with this summer Olympics in Beijing? Is it because of “western bias” against the communist state? Or is it “racism” as some Chinese blogs pout on the interweb? The IOC Olympics Games was revived in 1896 in Athens, Greece to promote peace and harmony through the enabling of ordinary citizens to participate in a global sporting event. Unfortunately, the Olympics is marred by a history of problems, political boycotts, and corruption. One of the nations that tried to boycott the Olympics was China who in 1976 forced Canada to withdraw Taiwan from the games who ended up missing 2 Olympics Games until 1984. What a bag of hypocrites.
Truth be told, ideally the Olympics should never be boycotted because of the values it tries to promote. In reality, something needs to be done and there is a definite need for a stronger person at the helm. Someone who can claim that his/her values firmly match that of the Olympics and is able to stick to them. A person without a conscience will continue to support the management at the IOC and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing because of their hypocritical stance in that human rights in China shouldn’t be the concern of the citizens of the Olympic world. Whatever happened to peace?
In Nepal, an unidentified mountain climber was “deported” after security found a “FREE TIBET” flag in his backpack. The Nepalese police and soldiers are guarding Mount Everest to protect China’s interests with the authorization to use “whatever means necessary, including use of weapons” to stop the protests in the region. Media coverage in the region of Tibet and Lhasa has been neutered while government propaganda blankets the airwaves in mainland China. Oh and the whole bootcamp thing. Tibet has been turned into one after thousands of soldiers (not cops were brought into the capital) are now camping by Everest on China’s side of the mountain.
Chinese immigrants (legal and illegal) abroad have taken various stand-points. Some are of the belief that China-can-do-no-wong while others have realized the importance of human rights. To all you Chinese who actively support China’s activities, let me make it clear – the protests aren’t against the Chinese, but rather directed towards a government that has been corrupted by power and is now out of control socially.
Is this a case of too little too late or is the IOC simply not doing it’s job after failing to enforce China’s promise to clean-up their acts upon winning the bid for the 2008 Games?
It’s like fucking for babies instead of pleasure. Corporate money over ideals.
Screw human rights and peace. Let the Games begin!
Saw some chubby looking college kid walking around with an empty gun holster on his right hip today. From the way he was walking around, I bet he felt he was the coolest kid in town. He had his arms curled over on his sides like a gunslinger from the 1800s, walking all slow with a heavy step, and moving his shoulders from side to side gangsta-style. LMAO!
Hats off to the dumbest-looking fuck I’ve seen in months. I’m also assuming that he’s the kind who stuffs his boxers/briefs with socks and watches Fox News for information.
A few weeks ago while driving down right off-of Central Avenue by Columbia Heights and Fridley, I saw an angry velociraptor-like vehicle driving towards me on the other side of the 2-lane road. My heart skipped a beat, the pupils of my eyes dilated, and everything went into slow-mo. It was starting to get dark but the low-slung advancing menacing outline was quite unmistakably the brand new 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution. Fleeting seconds yawned into minutes and the world seemed to pause giving me the kind of experience space travelers would be going through in the distant future as they engaged into warp speed.
At that very moment, my heart beats were obnoxiously loud as they blended with the rumbling sounds from the 2008 Evolution’s dual-exhaust tail-pipes leaving behind only a haunting melody. A flash of red and the doppler effect acting upon the exhaust notes blew by as I sat in my Civic mesmerized by it all.
I said “OMG DID you SEE that? That was the brand new Mitsubishi Evolution X!!!” to which Kaci said “That green car up ahead?” motioning to some soulless home appliance of a Ford Taurus as it pulled into our lane and sped away.
A week prior to the sighting of this rare beast, I happened upon the previous incarnation of it on Larpenteur Rd with Nima and Kaci in tow. The Evolution IX was a beauty to behold but in terms of sheet-metal magic, the new Evolution (no longer called the Evolution X) was decades ahead of the car it was replacing.
Above is a picture of what the new $32,990 (plus a handsome $5,000 in additional junk any dealer would throw in to bump the price) Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution looks like. It comes with an intercooler turbo mounted to feed the stampeding 291 horses hidden in the 2.0 liter MIVEC engine. All 4 wheels roll on the usual grippy S-AWC (Super-All Wheel Control) AWD (all-wheel drive) setup allowing you for greater control in slippery conditions than any FWD (front-wheel drive) or RWD (rear-wheel drive) automobile.
So why did I bring this up? Was driving out on 10th St today heading west when all of a sudden, I felt a sense of deja-vu. The space time continuum ripped to shreds as time stood still. My hands gripped the now seemingly unfamiliar steering wheel of the Civic as an ominous shadow loomed in at my one O’clock. A black 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX peered out from a back road looking to get onto the busy street. If you’re into cars, you are most likely to understand the immense rivalry between the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution and Subaru Impreza WRX (STi) fans.
Unfortunately for Subaru, ever since Toyota bought a majority stake in Fuji Heavy Industries, the parent company of Subaru, it was to be expected that the wild bluestars of World Rally Championship legends was finally going to be tamed. So when the 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX (the WRX STi is eye-candy but is quite a bit more expensive) was unveiled, there was a visual sigh of disappointment from millions of fans across the world. While the exterior design elements focused on function over form, the spongy suspension system on the AWD (All-Wheel Drive) didn’t make much sense. After all, this was an Impreza WRX, not a Subaru Legacy (the car you pick if you prefer comfort with AWD in a Subaru).
It wasn’t supposed to be comfortable. It wasn’t supposed to look like a doorstop. Most of all, it wasn’t supposed to be a Corolla. But for the brief 5 seconds that I got to see it, I could tell it was almost as tall as the ugly Dodge Caliber but the giant turbo scoop on the front brought things into perspective. It was a nice looking ride but then again, somewhat plain-jane like a MazdaSpeed3. The black paint definitely helped.
As I drove by admiring the car (What a hypocrite. I just dissed it right here in my blog in this very post), my eyes fixated themselves on a vertical black-sprayed metal thing behind the front grill and the oval logo. Not sure why but everything was in slow-motion and it felt like I was quickly panning the car to look for something that stood out other than the air-intake hood scoop. Controlling the movements of my eye balls felt like using a dusty old analog computer mouse that needed cleaning and you knew it because of the jerky cursor movements on the screen. I duly noted that this WAS indeed the brand new turbo-charged 224 hp $24,850 Impreza WRX and not the STi nor the Legacy nor anything else. And then, I drove past it.
An album of the British band, The Subways, was blaring out OH YEA OH YEA on my CD player and so I missed the chance to even hear the toned down whimpers of the Mitsubishi Evolution’s once great arch-nemesis. Oh Subaru. You will be loved … again someday.
A couple of videos on the Impreza WRX STi against the Lancer Evolution.
Most people are against red light cameras. Heckeven I’m against red light cameras. The long history of increased accidents upon installation of the cameras and the various scammer like activities from the local authorities in doling out tickets certainly don’t make things better for the advocates of those cameras.
So what exactly is a “red light camera?” It’s not a camera by your local red light district, nor is it a special infrared camera and it certainly does not remove the “red eye” effect. A red light camera is an actively computer monitoring system that snaps pictures of the license plates and sometimes, faces of the drivers in the event of a violation – more specifically, running a red light. They’ve already been banned out of Minneapolis-St Paul due the ruling that they were unconstitutional after a slew of tickets were mailed out to supposed violators.
Usually, RLC (Red Light Cameras) are placed at 4-way intersections with 4 cameras … one facing each side of the street. Do note that the cameras in question are mounted up high on tall structures like lamp-posts. They’re usually not situated by the traffic lights themselves so don’t go thinking every infrared sensor (used by cops and emergency vehicles to alter traffic lights) is an RLC. Also, the cameras look like the regular security cameras you see at government locations. For more info on RLCs, click here.
Below are 2 RLC locations in St Cloud, Minnesota, which in my opinion has definitely shortened the AMBER/YELLOW light times. Both locations are notorious for their rather long RED lights especially if you’re heading NORTH-SOUTH (or vice versa) on either 9th Ave S or 5th Ave S.
If you’re heading north on 9th Ave S (Great River Rd) and attempting to make a LEFT on 10th St S, you’re SOL during rush because the GREEN light arrow pointing LEFT changes to AMBER in 3 seconds which takes under 3 seconds to turn RED. Otherwise, both locations have now improved the RED light waiting period. I don’t have to dread driving near it because I know that it will turn GREEN soon. The short AMBER/YELLOW light period is annoying but nearly not as the waiting periods for the RED to turn GREEN from days of yore.
This article on Autoblog highlights six cities that were caught red-handed for shortening the yellow light wait period to snare unsuspecting drivers with fines. Rumor is that the companies that install those cameras charge the cities a boatload of fees and the only way those cities can recoup the costs was by increasing the number of violators.
So the question remains, are Red Light Cameras a “Blessing” or teh “Devil?” I guess only time will tell but for now, let’s just hop on that bandwagon to vilify our cold-hearted robotic overlords.
Didn’t mean to cut your moment of zen after that silencio I promised but couldn’t help writing how steeply biased in stupidity John McCain’s idea of a gas tax removal period between the summer days of Memorial and Labor Day. Well if it’s not stupid, it’s a down right sham mean to scam the sheep that follows the herd to the slaughterhouse. Of course we all would like lower prices … FOR EVERY GODDAMN THING and not just gas.
The Republicans are all about how the market will even things out so removing taxes will eventually hit back at the consumer if not in the summer, then maybe in the fall. This would be hard for the poor and especially students who are working 40+ hours weekly in the summer months cuz once school starts, they have to cut back their work load to accommodate classes.
But to be more clear on the matter, McCain said, “The people who drive the furthest are the lowest income Americans.” His advisor then chimed in, “We know that in the summer gas prices peak and it’s when people do a lot of traveling, so if you give them a break just from Memorial Day to Labor Day… if you could do it even just for those three months, it would give people some short-term benefit on inflation.” [source]
WTF are they smoking? He claims that it would benefit the poor but aren’t mass-transportation the way to get the economically strapped/smart people to travel? How bout a TAX FREE month for mass-transport users? That would make a far more important impact on the economy, the environment, and the future. That and tax exempt status for veterans, retired citizens, and those living on food stamps.
Unfortunately for the hypocritical John McCain, his buddy Bob Dole presented the same gas holiday idea 12 years ago when he (Dole) was up against Bill Clinton only to succumb to a painful defeat. The signs aren’t good. The implementation of stupid short-sighted ideas are what got us in the current mess in the first place. McCain needs a good plan or should just shut up for the sake of the good of this nation.
Instead of focusing on turning this nation into a smarter group of people, all they’re (GOP) trying to do is keep building a wall of people to protect the rest from the inevitable tidal waves. Getting people to slowly overcome their heavy dependence on gasoline and reward them is what the big cats in Washington should be proposing. So until then, keep throwing your bullshit John McCain. Only the clueless will bite em.
The root cause for most of the issues of unable to find the files you downloaded lie with how we set our browsers to handle files. By default on most browsers, files are set to be downloaded onto the desktop screen but changes we’ve made might affect the location.
Truth be told, ideally the Olympics should never be boycotted because of the values it tries to promote. In reality, something needs to be done and there is a definite need for a stronger person at the helm. Someone who can claim that his/her values firmly match that of the Olympics and is able to stick to them. A person without a conscience will continue to support the management at the IOC and the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing because of their hypocritical stance in that human rights in China shouldn’t be the concern of the citizens of the Olympic world. Whatever happened to peace?
Saw some chubby looking college kid walking around with an empty gun holster on his right hip today. From the way he was walking around, I bet he felt he was the coolest kid in town. He had his arms curled over on his sides like a gunslinger from the 1800s, walking all slow with a heavy step, and moving his shoulders from side to side gangsta-style. LMAO!
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